Insecta - Hymenoptera - Formicidae
Alternative combination: Camponotus shanwangense
Full reference: Y. C. Hong. 1984. Fossil insects in the diatoms of Shanwang. Bulletin of the Tianjin Institute of Geology and Mineral Resources 8:1-15
Belongs to Camponotus according to B. Bolton 2012
See also Hong 1984, Hong and Wang 1985 and Zhang 1989
Sister taxa: Camponotus ambon, Camponotus ampullosus, Camponotus cockerelli, Camponotus compactus, Camponotus crozei, Camponotus curviansatus, Camponotus festinatus, Camponotus festinus, Camponotus fuscipennis, Camponotus gracilis, Camponotus heracleus, Camponotus herculeanus, Camponotus induratus, Camponotus lignitus, Camponotus longiventris, Camponotus longus, Camponotus luteus, Camponotus mengei, Camponotus microcephalus, Camponotus microthoracus, Camponotus mitis, Camponotus novotnyi, Camponotus obesus, Camponotus oeningensis, Camponotus parvus, Camponotus penninervis, Camponotus petrifactus, Camponotus pictus, Camponotus pinguiculus, Camponotus plenus, Camponotus theobaldi, Camponotus tokunagai, Camponotus vehemens, Camponotus vetus
Type specimen: Dong12Nan, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Shanwang, Linqu County, collection Dong, which is in a Burdigalian lacustrine - large mudstone in the Shanwang Formation of China.
Distribution:
• Miocene of China (4 collections)
Total: 4 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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